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DTIC ADA027530: Dispersion Control System for Sounding Rockets

by: Defense Technical Information Center

Publication date: 1976-03-04

Topics: DTIC Archive, Pickell, James R., AIR FORCE GEOPHYSICS LAB HANSCOM AFB MA, *SOUNDING ROCKETS, *FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS, DISPERSIONS, AUTOMATIC PILOTS, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, MICROPROCESSORS, GUIDANCE COMPUTERS,

Collection: dticarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

High altitude sounding rockets have always presented a problem to small test ranges such as WSMR because of rocket dispersion. This report presents a strap-on dispersion control system employing a 16-bit microprocessor as its brains that requires only software changes to accommodate different sounding rocket vehicles. Mostly the report contains a detailed explanation of the electronic hardware used, and the software developed, for a Paiute-Tomahawk sounding rocket.